Dillon P. Thornbury has joined the firm. He will practice primarily in the areas of business transactions, real estate, and estate planning and administration. Dillon previously completed an externship with Magistrate Judge Tu M. Pham of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Dillon received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Central College in Pella, Iowa and his law degree, cum laude, and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and the University of Memphis, Fogelman College of Business and Economics simultaneously.

On November 3, 2017, Sam Elliott delivered Lincoln Memorial University’s annual R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture presented by the Abraham Lincoln Institute for the Study of Leadership and Public Policy and the Duncan School of Law. The lecture was entitled, “‘You cannot get back … without some irregularity’: the 1865 Constitutional Amendments and the Return of Civil Government in Tennessee.” The presentation explored the fragility of constitutional civil government and the ultimate need for the law to be supported by the government’s monopoly of force, and was inspired by Sam’s research for his two most recent biographies of Isham G. Harris and John C. Brown.